River surfing in Snow

River surfing in Snow

River surfing in Snow is a short documentary about surfing on a river wave in Salzburg, Austria. Surfers first started to ride the Almkanal in 2010, and today there is a small community who come together to live their dream.

Win a Typhoon 5mm wetsuit and full winter wetsuit survival kit

Win a Typhoon 5mm wetsuit and full winter wetsuit survival kit

Feeling the cold? Is your old wetsuit starting to show its weaknesses. Fear not, we have a full winter kit from Typhoon to give away worth £372.

Typhoon have been at the forefront of wetsuit design with a cold water heritage since setting up factory in Redcar, Yorkshire in the 70’s. They have been supplying military organisations and RNLI for over 30 years as well as James Bond and his co-stars and the Antarctic Survey. Team riders include Alan Stokes, Barnaby Cox and Sky Shaw.

Typhoon will send one lucky winner a full winter survival kit worth £372 including

Kona OFZ 5mm wetsuit, Stretch V 5mm gloves, Zephyr 5mm split toe boots, a Raptor 5mm hood and a 60L Holdall Drybag

The Kona combines cleverly engineered wetsuit technology with stunning styling, making it an instant classic. Using 5/4/3 Flextreme neoprene throughout, Thermadome neoprene on the front of body and Furness lining utilizing Maxdri fabric, it one of the warmest 5mm suits in class. Contour control Liquid Seal seams and an easy to put on Over Front Zip system ensure maximum comfort and performance on this feature packed flagship suit.

Super stretch gloves , 5mm Titanium Super Stretch Neoprene, glued and blind stitched construction, all over reinforcing, inner wrist gasket to help minimise water ingress.

Zephyr 5mm split toe boots. Internal split toe no snag bridge, Liquid seal seams, GBS, stabilising binding guard, full toe and heal box protection and sculptured T-Flex Neoprene shank.

Raptor 5mm Hood. Blindstitched 5mm Neoprene superstretch hood with glide skin interior, face seal and new anatomic cut.

60L Holdall Drybag Ideal for transporting all your wet kit in one bag, or for keeping your essentials dry on the water, the 60 litre dry holdall is roomy enough to meet all your needs. Its extra-long handles means you can turn this holdall into a backpack when you need extra hands.

A winner will be picked by Thursday 24th January
For more on Typhoon head to their website here typhoon-int.co.uk or Instagram here 

Goofy Kelly

Goofy Kelly

Is seems the GOAT is working on his switch stance and goofy barrels just to up his wave wizardry points. Just when you thought it wasn’t possible to feel any worse about your own surfing, he decides to go play and smack us all down. Thankfully he’s still bald, pah.

The Iconic Baggy Lodge, Croyde is up for sale

The Iconic Baggy Lodge, Croyde is up for sale


Owner Mikey Cotton posted yesterday “It is with great regret that I am selling my home by the sea – Baggy Lodge, Croyde Bay. It is a wonderful home and a great business – if you want to continue with that, or just a big beautiful house.”

Baggy Lodge was run as a surf lodge and cafe with surf hire, but is being marketed as a home for £1.6 million, which given the prices of coastal property recently and its position, seems a steal.. if you have a spare 1.6 mill…

Consortium anyone?

More detail here

Crowdfunder launched to help Roger Cooper rebuild his surfboard factory

Crowdfunder launched to help Roger Cooper rebuild his surfboard factory

On 6/01/2019 legendary Welsh shaper Roger Cooper had his surfboard factory destroyed by fire.

UPDATE

The Crowdfunder appeal has hit its target today raising over £4,000 for a new factory. Well done everyone!

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This factory was home to Roger Cooper surfboards for over 30 years.

Unfortunately funds do not cover the cost of rebuilding the factory. A huge amount of irreplaceable tools, equipment and memories accumulated over many many years were also lost in the fire. So a crowdfunder has been set up to help Roger rebuild.

Donate here .

Roger Cooper has been making surfboards for nearly 50 years. One of the few British craftsmen to have Hand shaped over 10000 boards. He started his surfboard building career at home on the Isle of Wight then moved to North Devon gaining knowledge and expertise working at Tiki surfboard factory. In 1974 he moved to South Wales and the Zippy Sticks Surfboard factory was born. After a few moves Roger Cooper Surfboards Factory was built in Cwmafan, Port Talbot close to Rogers favourite local surf break Aberavon.